California · Nonprofit
EARTHTEAM
EARTHTEAM (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,970 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($225,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $847k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Earthteam does
Mission
Earthteam empowers teens to become lifelong environmental stewards through experiential education, skills development, and the building of community connections.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Clean cities - zerolitter program this program includes yearlong internships at 6 public high schools. It inspires students to expand their thinking about trash, landfills, and the ideas behind a "disposable culture". They examine their capacity to affect change in reducing their campuses' waste streams and their impact on healthy watersheds. Students promote recycling at home, investigate their waste-making patterns in school, and general littering behaviors in public spaces. They use computer tablets and a special mapping application [zerolitter.org](http://zerolitter.org). In 2025-26 we conducted multiple litter pickups in 6 high schools in 2 counties, alameda and contra costa, working with 2,500 students. Students have removed and classified nearly 250,000 pieces of litter. The program employed 134 interns. They also developed a new ovta technology to help 4 cities meet their zero waste goals, generating reportable data to epaclean water - sustainable watersheds action teams this program includes year-long after-school internships at 8 public high schools. Students engage in a variety of hands-on restoration activities, from working with local professional site partners to…
$805,165 spentof which $50,000 as grants$371,739 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $805,165.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $413k to $131k (−68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 9% · 2019 23% · 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of EARTHTEAM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Manuel Alonso
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $127k → $89k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EARTHTEAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EARTHTEAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EARTHTEAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 82% · 2020 29% · 2021 57% · 2022 73% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of EARTHTEAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of EARTHTEAM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EARTHTEAM's revenue grew 71% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 51 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like EARTHTEAM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTHTEAM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARTHTEAM?
- EARTHTEAM (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,970 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($225,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARTHTEAM have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $846,970 in grants to EARTHTEAM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTHTEAM?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTHTEAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing